About Us

Founded in 2004

Since 2004 Hemisphere West Europe Ltd (HWE) have specialised in providing payment solutions to OEM’s and merchants. Originally involved in bank note and coin acceptance environments, HWE has progressed to concentrate in acceptance of Credit / Debit card payments by providing hardware solutions in both the unattended and attended card present market. Find out more about us below.

Industry Knowledge

HWE has a detailed knowledge of the card payment industry and provides a consultative approach to finding the best solutions for customers, we are experienced in the car parking, transportation, amusement, vending & retail markets, to name a few. If you need a credit or debit card payment solution, we can help you find the best and most suitable options.

Built on Relationships

Having long standing relationships with payment hardware suppliers, payment gateways and acquiring partners enables us to offer a one-stop-shop to all customers and merchants. Building positive and trustworthy partner relationships creates a solid foundation and brings new opportunities and solutions to our customers.

Ready for You

Based in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, our business model is based on carrying extensive stocks of Ingenico, FEIG & PAX along with many other products in the cash acceptance market. Including coin validators, bank note validators, bank note dispensers, passport readers and card dispensers. We pride ourselves on being very experienced in all aspects of payments whether it be with a credit card or cash.

HWE are a UK stockholding distributor for Ingenico, FEIG, PAX, Thales, whMunzprufer and more...

Across the Pond

Our sister company Unattended Card Payments Inc (UCP), based in Las Vegas, was incorporated in 2013 to enable and deliver on the transition to EMV card payments in the USA that HWE has much experience within UK & Europe. UCP Inc offers a full range of card payment devices and solutions for the North American market.